A Franklin Park man has been charged with “drug induced homicide” for allegedly supplying heroin to a woman three years ago that led to the her death by overdose in a Glenview hospital, police said Monday.
Troy Campbell, 54, of the 9500 block of Franklin Avenue in Franklin Park, was arrested on Jan. 15 and charged with drug induced homicide, a class x felony, Glenview police said in a release. During a bond hearing at the Skokie Courthouse on Monday, Campbell was ordered held without bond. He is scheduled for a Jan. 19 preliminary hearing, also at the Skokie courthouse.
Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 23, 2018, Campbell sold heroin to, Dina Doyle, 40, who died the same day at Glenbrook Hospital in the 2100 block of Pfingsten Road in Glenview.
They said on the day she died, Doyle was in a vehicle with a “witness” and that Doyle had phone conversations on the witness’ cellphone, and that several of the conversations were on speakerphone, and overheard by the witness.
Prosecutors said the witness, whose name has not been released, recognized the voice of the person Doyle was speaking with as, Campbell. During the phone conversations, Doyle and Campbell discussed Campbell providing Doyle with $50 worth of heroin, prosecutors said.
They said the witness knew Doyle to have a “history of addiction to heroin” and knew that Campbell had been Doyle’s heroin supplier in the past. During the conversations overheard by the witness, Doyle and Campbell agreed to meet at the Walgreen’s at 4820 N. Cumberland in Norridge, said prosecutors.
They said that when the witness and Doyle arrived at the Walgreen’s, Doyle went in, and that while Doyle was inside the store, the witness saw, and video surveillance in the area confirmed, a Hyundai SUV, registered to Campbell and recognized by the witness as Campbell’s vehicle, pull into the parking lot of the Walgreen’s.
Doyle then got into Campbells’ vehicle, and after a few minutes got out, walked to the rear of it where she met up with “a male black” who had exited the driver’s door of Campbell’s car. That male black can be observed on video surveillance as “fitting Campbell’s physical description,” prosecutors said. They said Campbell handed Doyle a black garbage bag and a bottle of laundry detergent and that Doyle returned to the witness’ car.
After the witness and Doyle drove out of the Walgreen’s parking lot, Doyle pulled out a bag of a “brownish substance” which the witness believed to be heroin, prosecutors said. They said the witness saw Doyle snort the substance in the car and that she “quickly became unresponsive”
The witness Googled locations of nearby hospitals, then drove Doyle to Northshore Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, and alerted medical staff of Doyle’s condition. Doyle did not have a pulse or vital signs upon at the hospital and an autopsy revealed she died of combined drug toxicity of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl, said prosecutors.
They said a police investigation confirmed numerous phone calls between the witness’ phone and a cellular phone associated with Campbell in the short time period leading up to the victim entering Campbell’s Hyundai. That investigation also placed Campbell’s and the witness’ phone in the area of the Walgreen’s at the time Doyle entered Cambpell’s vehicle.
In March 2020, Glenview police got an arrest warrant for Campbell and it was learned that he had relocated to Montgomery County, Texas, police said. They said that at some point, Campbell returned to Illinois, and on Jan. 15, he was taken into custody by Franklin Park police. Glenview police conducted the investigation with the assistance of Franklin Park police department, the Montgomery County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the release said.
Brian L. Cox is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.